Arcade Repair Masterclass
Classic full-size cabinets and game boards, arcade CRT monitors, and modern LCD/computer-based systems. Learn to identify the installed hardware, explain faults and prepare a documented repair plan.
Choose a full track or the complete program
The complete program includes all three tracks and all twelve mini courses. Each track has four mini courses. Every track has 16 lessons, four mini courses and two free previews. Begin with the two free sample lessons in any track.
Prerequisites: electronics fundamentals, schematic-reading skills and appropriate supervised practical training before any internal equipment work. This written course does not include instructor-supervised labs, original repair videos or model-specific service manuals.
Classic Arcade Cabinet & Board Repair
Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and related cabinet systems: identification, power architecture, logic, controls, coin inputs and sound.
Read the free sampleSee the full track and mini courses →View price & enrollArcade CRT Monitor Diagnosis
Display identification, signal-path reasoning, model dossiers, qualified repair planning and restoration verification.
Read the free sampleSee the full track and mini courses →View price & enrollModern Arcade & Multicade Service
LCD and computer-based cabinet systems, USB controls, authorized software recovery, maintenance and service business practice.
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Choose a starting route by symptom
- Unknown cabinet: start with Classic → Identity & Restoration Planning.
- Repeated reset or garbage graphics: Classic → Power first, then Logic & Board Diagnosis.
- Missed turns or no credits: Classic → Controls, Audio & Classic Capstone.
- Plays blind, missing color or rolling image: CRT → Picture Symptoms & Fault Isolation.
- Collapse or repeated fuse failure: stop operation and arrange qualified service.
- LCD no signal or boot errors: Modern → Systems & Startup.
- USB controls work in a tester but not a game: Modern → Controls, Peripherals & Audio.
- Software missing files or failed recovery: Modern → Software, Conversion & Recovery.
Suggested study plan: 12 weeks, one mini course per week. Planning estimate: 24–40 hours of reading, case work and written exercises; actual time varies. Practical qualification needs additional supervised training.
Optional supervised low-voltage learning labs
- Use a disconnected loose joystick assembly to document switch operation and four-way restriction.
- On a trainer approved by an instructor, compare source/load voltage and infer connector resistance; never use an unidentified cabinet.
- Use an instructor-supplied logic trainer to compare stable, changing and reset signals within tool ratings.
- Use a licensed PC setup to trace input mapping through device, frontend and game layers, with a tested rollback.
These are lab objectives, not instructions for internal CRT or mains service. An instructor must approve the trainer, equipment and procedure.
- Evidence-led lessons with objectives, worked cases and practical-planning tasks. Every track has a searchable lesson directory, original fault cases, four Q&A entries per lesson, a shared service glossary and a conceptual system diagram.
- Quizzes with answer explanations and browser completion records.
- Printable diagnostic worksheets and practice prompts for intake, diagnosis, parts compatibility, quotes and handovers.
- One capstone for each track and a three-case portfolio for the combined program.
Completion records describe written learning activities. They do not verify hands-on servicing competence.
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